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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, there are 12,000 kids per grade in MCPS roughly.

Let's take the top 1% of kids - that's 120. Top 5% is 600 kids.

Our current Poolesville/Blair/RM seats allow for about half those kids to be in a special program.

The missing piece of information is how many of those kids WANT to be in a special program but can't go because of geography/transportation?

Then, what percentage of the population should we be contorting ourselves to provide special programs for? Is it 1, 5, or 10% What about a motivated 11th% kid?

What we really need to do is strengthen every high school to have a portfolio of advanced classes so the top 10-15% are challenged there (in a high school of 2500 kids, that would be 62-75 kids per grade - that's enough for multiple sections).[/quote]

What happens to those kids?  They go without what they need.  Our school has few advanced classes.  The principal despite lobbying by parents and students refuses to add them.  We have qualified teachers.[/quote]

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